[CentOS] PAE Kernel

Fri Aug 27 16:56:19 UTC 2010
Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca>

"Matt" <lm7812 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I have a box running CentOS 5.x 32 bit.  I noticed these kernels are
>  installed.
>
>  [root at ns1 log]# rpm -qa |grep kern |sort
>  kernel-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5
>  kernel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5
>  kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5
>  kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5
>  kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5
>  kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5

You can remove kernel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 and kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5
and keep only the newest version, kernel-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5.

Since you don't have kernel-PAE, you can also delete all the
kernel-PAE-devel files.

So, you can delete everything except kernel-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5. The
other packages don't do any harm, but they take up disk space
unnecessarily. The kernel-PAE-devel packages also get updated
unnecessarily.


Yves Bellefeuille
<yan at storm.ca>